The Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental Art at Villa I Tatti

The Bernard Berenson Collection of Oriental Art at Villa I Tatti
Author: Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This bolume catalogues the 43 objects in the Berenson collection. They include Chinese paintings, early Chinese gil-bronze Buddhist figures, Khmer sculpture and other works from China, Japan, Tibet and Southeast Asia.

Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson
Author: Joseph Connors
Publisher: Villa I Tatti
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art critics
ISBN: 9780674427853

Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage explores the intellectual world of Berenson (1865-1959), who put the connoisseurship of Renaissance art on a firm footing at the turn of the twentieth century. Essays explore his relationships with various cultural figures including William James, Jean Paul Richter, Katherine Dunham, and many others.

Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena

Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena
Author: TimothyB. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351575597

In Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, contributors explore the evolving relationship between image and politics in Siena from the time of the city-state's defeat of Florence at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260 to the end of the Sienese Republic in 1550. Engaging issues of the politicization of art in Sienese painting, sculpture, architecture, and urban design, the volume challenges the still-prevalent myth of Siena's cultural and artistic conservatism after the mid fourteenth century. Clearly establishing uniquely Sienese artistic agendas and vocabulary, these essays broaden our understanding of the intersection of art, politics, and religion in Siena by revisiting its medieval origins and exploring its continuing role in the Renaissance.

Devour the Land

Devour the Land
Author: Makeda Best
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300260083

Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics Devour the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the US military's impact on the domestic environment since the 1970s, a dynamic period for environmental activism as well as for photography. This catalogue presents a lively range of voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics. Alongside interviews with prominent contemporary artists working in the landscape photography tradition, the images speak to photographers' varied motivations, personal experiences, and artistic approaches. The result is a surprising picture of the ways violence and warfare surround us. Although most modern combat has taken place abroad, the US domestic landscape bears the footprint of armed conflict--much of the environmental damage we live with today was caused by our own military and the expansive network of industries supporting its work. Designed to evoke a field book and to nod toward ephemera produced by earlier artists and activists, the catalogue features works by dozens of photographers, including Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Dorothy Marder, Alex Webb, Terry Evans, and many more.

The Philosophy Chamber

The Philosophy Chamber
Author: Ethan W. Lasser
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 030022592X

"This publication accompanies the exhibition The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard's Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from May 19 through December 31, 2017, and at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 2018."

A Home of the Humanities

A Home of the Humanities
Author: James N. Carder
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780884023654

Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss were consummate collectors and patrons. The illustrated essays in this volume reveal how the Blisses' wide-ranging interests in art, music, gardens, architecture, and interior design resulted in the creation of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection--what they came to call their "home of the humanities."

The Trojan War in Ancient Art

The Trojan War in Ancient Art
Author: Susan Woodford
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801481642

The legendary characters of the Trojan War captured the imaginations not only of Greek and Roman writers, but of countless visual artists as well. A vibrant retelling of the Trojan myths, this handsomely illustrated book brings to life for today's...

The Great Chinese Art Transfer

The Great Chinese Art Transfer
Author: Michael St. Clair
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1611479118

This book tells the story of how and why millions of Chinese works of art got exported to collectors and institutions in the West, in particular to the United States. As China’s last dynasty was weakening and collapsing from 1860 into the early years of the twentieth century, China’s internal chaos allowed imperial and private Chinese collections to be scattered, looted and sold. A remarkable and varied group of Westerners entered the country, had their eyes opened to centuries of Chinese creativity and gathered up paintings, bronzes and ceramics, as well as sculptures, jades and bronzes. The migration to America and Europe of China’s art is one of the greatest outflows of a culture’s artistic heritage in human history. A good deal of the art procured by collectors and dealers, some famous and others little known but all remarkable in individual ways, eventually wound up in American and European museums. Today some of the art still in private hands is returning to China via international auctions and aggressive purchases by Chinese millionaires.